March 11, 2010, 8:53AM
State CSO Fired for Talking Openly at RSA
1 CommentPennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
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I think the content of the presentation is being overblown as the reason for his dismissla. As noted in the story the state CIO had put a lockdown on public discussion of cyber-security in general. by appearing at RSA Maley broke with that directive, and thus paid the price...